The Paisley Convertible Opens on Broadway
New York critics split on the sex joke comedy The Paisley Convertible at Henry Miller's Theatre. Joyce Bulifant and Bill Bixby lead a capable cast in a play that some call charming and warm while others deem trivial and predictable.
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New York
UPI
Henry Miller
Harry Cauley
Joyce Bulifant
Bill Bixby
Marsha Hunt
Betsy von Furstenberg
Jed Allan
Richard Watts, Jr
Post
Jelly beans and Scotch mark a quirky sixth week anniversary
The report notes a playful exchange where she offers a cheap bottle of Scotch and he responds with her favorite jelly beans. Walter Kerr comments that trivia demands more labor than it seems to justify.
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John Chapman
Daily News
Walter Kerr
New York Times
Shaffer Farce Black Comedy Opens at Ethel Barrymore
Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre delivers heavy laughs built on physical farce and sudden darkness. The play unfolds with dialogue reduced by design as the stage remains fully dark at the start, amplifying the comic rhythm.
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New York
UPI
Peter Shaffer
Ethel Barrymore Theater
Shaffer
Black Comedy and White Lies review at the theatre
A one act dark stage piece opens with a blown fuse and eight actors stumbling in a London apartment. Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave shine as a sculptor and society girl in Black Comedy directed by John Dexter, with strong support from Donald Madden Camila Ashland Peter Bull Geraldine Page and more. The companion White Lies features Shaffer’s seaside fortune teller and two clients with a blunt comic payoff.
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Michael Crawford
Lynn Redgrave
London
Donald Madden
Camila Ashland
Naeighbors
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Pierre Epstein
Michael Miller
Shaffer
Miss Page
Madden
Crawford
Critics Praise Black Comedy for Wit and Laughter
Walter Kerr of the New York Times finds the material clever but thinning as a commercial staple yet entertaining. Norman Nadel of the World Journal Tribune calls the English play uproariously funny and a rediscovery of laughter.
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World Journal Tribune
Walter Kerr
New York Times
Muggsy Spanier Jazz Star Dies at 61 in California
Sausalito birthplace of Francis Joseph Spanier, known as Muggsy Spanier, dies in his sleep at 61 from a heart ailment. The cornet player helped shape Dixieland with King Oliver’s influence, led Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtime Band, and recorded with Bluebird, Decca, Mercury, and RCA Victor. He married Ruth O’Connell in 1950 and previously spent three months hospitalized after a 1938 collapse.
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Edmond Hall of Jazz Dies at 65 in Cambridge
Edmond Hall, famed jazz clarinetist who played with Dixieland bands and legends such as Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, died of a heart attack at age 65 in Cambridge where he had lived for three years. He had no formal clarinet training and previously worked with Claude Hopkins and Mary Lou Williams.
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Danny Kaye Aids Woman Suffering Heart Attack Aboard Flight
Danny Kaye stayed awake all night aboard a Trans World Airlines jet to Europe, providing oxygen to a seriously ill woman identified as 70s Hungarian widow Mrs. Borzsonyi after she suffered a heart attack after departure from Chicago. He remained with doctors at London airport for 20 minutes to explain the incident. The woman died later at Hillingdon hospital near the airport.
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Danny Kaye
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Borzsonyi
Hillingdon
Brando Receives Unequal Welcome in Cairo
In Cairo two Egyptian ministers bypassed laws to greet Marlon Brando on arrival with an unnamed Jamaican companion. Health officials ordered quarantine or departure while Tourism Minister An Shakir secured a pledge from Health Minister Nabawi Mohanes that Brando and his friend could not have smallpox or cholera. Brando plans a six day stay.
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Marlon Brando
Brando
Egypt
An Shakir
Nabawi Mohanes
The Coven Ant With Death and Other Plays
Monday theater listings show Paramount with A Coven ant with Death at 1 40 3 40 5 45 7 50 9 55 plus shorts. Iowa and World screens feature Alfie and The Blue Max with multiple showtimes. Marion lists Arrivederci Baby and shorts through night with Doctor Zhivago at 8.
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Blue
Alfie
Zhivago
Marion — “Arrivederci
Mayor Lindsay and Gregory Peck Narrate Lincoln Portrait
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay narrated Aaron Copland Lin coln Portrait at Philharmonic Hall as part of Lincoln's Birthday festivities. Gregory Peck performed at Hofstra University Playhouse Nassau County on Long Island with Lindsay saying he was nervous yet suited to Lincoln's role.
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NEW York
Lincoln
Aaron Copland
John V. Lindsay
Philharmonic Hall
Gregory Peck
Hofstra University Playhouse
Hempstead
Long Island
Lindsay
John Brown
Nightclub owner Bernie Williams dies at 68
Bernie Williams, 68, the Phoenix nightclub owner who wrote the hit song Somebody Stole My Gal, died Sunday.
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Phoenix
Bernie Williams
Jackie Mason Beaten in Miami
Comedian Jackie Mason reported to police that he was attacked by a stranger early Monday near his Miami Beach hotel. He received treatment at Jackson Memorial hospital for facial injuries after a man struck him multiple times as a date fled.
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Jackie Mason
Mason
Miami Beach
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Arthur Dyer
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